Not only does everyone start with 0, some of us end up there again. While living in New York I bought and sold on eBay for years, and had a nice feedback rating. When I moved to Vegas last year, I sold a handful of items through eBay before the move, had no problems, etc. But when I went back on eBay months later my account had been blocked. (I'm assuming the credit card # they had on file to bill my account had expired or changed). Since I had changed Internet providers, any e-mail they sent me to address the problem was going to a dead account. And I'm stuck starting over with 0.